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Canaan Harris

    Reading Revelation in Babylon: Actualizing the Apocalypse
    Worship From Home: Church Without Walls
    • 2021

      Dismissed by contemporary authorities as gibberish, in truth the Book of Revelation proposes a narrative of existence that constitutes a radical alternative to the status quo. Although "about that day or hour no one knows" (Mk.13:32), Revelation's prophecy instructs us to keep watch for signs of the end times that we might not be found asleep at Christ's return. By exposing the true identity of "mystery Babylon" (Rev.17:5) Revelation provides an instruction manual for how we should live as "strangers and sojourners"(1Pet.2:11). For in "this present darkness" (Eph.6:12) it seems we suffer a lack of purpose and identity precisely to the extent that we fail to read and interpret the Apocalypse.

      Reading Revelation in Babylon: Actualizing the Apocalypse
    • 2020

      Worship From Home: Church Without Walls

      • 172 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      “When are we going back to church?” As pastor of a congregation now meeting online because of COVID-19, I hear that question more often than any other. Yet in these past few months since we were prohibited by quarantine from meeting behind our walls we have reached more people with the message of Jesus than ever before! No doubt it helped that at the same time our church was forced to pivot from in-person to virtual gatherings I had a role in my A.A. home-group helping us to make the same transition. Thus Worship From Home and our dream for a church without walls draws on what I’ve seen to be the proven success of online rooms of recovery to offer an authentic, effective spiritual experience in a virtual space. Consequently, while we grieve the harm caused by the pandemic, we can already see the potential for a new way of life where more space is available, virtually, for everyone. This book is written in hopes that we as the church can find the courage not to "go back," not to fight the inevitable change, but instead to go forward as we walk boldly into this future together.

      Worship From Home: Church Without Walls